Last minute invitation to London gig

Hello all you strange wonderful, diverse and occasionally perverse people out there who have somehow come to read this.I am advertising a little gig I am doing tomorrow at Tottenham Chances , along with some other songwriters, poets and performers. Tottenham Chances is probably my favourite venue in London at moment. It is a down to earth anarchic place where anything and everything is possible. I have seen things there ( such as a drummer playing and singing in a giant rotating hamster wheel, and a resident tardis, which I have seen at no other London venue). The audience are a good mix of local intellectuals, alternative not so young anymore punks, hippies and anarchists, drunks, extremely creative people, idealists who still believe they can change the world and people who come in from the street and wonder what on earth is going on.Anyway it is a variable venue where anything is possible. I'll be doing a short acoustic gig for maybe 20 minutes, come and say hello! (or buy an album at a reduced price)Date:Thursday 24th of OctoberTime: 8-11pm Cost: FREE!!!!Nearest Tube Seven SistersAddress: 399 High Rd London N17 6QN

I would have advertised this earlier but I have been ill and did not know if I would be well enough to perform.Love and Peace

Hello Good people who read my newsI just wanted to say if you are coming to my gig tomorrow at the Olive 18 Stoke Newington High Street that Dave Russell and the Worm poet ( who used to be a regular at my club) are also performing , I should be on stage around 10 pm but the entire event starts sometime between 8.30pm and 9pm.There is a time change to my gig on Thursday 6th of June at 129 Stoke Newington High Street, I guess this is my Stoke Newington High Street tour! The event now starts around 8pm not 9pm and I am due to do a 30 minute set at around 8.30pm, so if you arrive at nine you could miss me, however there seems to be some general fluidity in the running order so I would advise getting there at 8pm, some people will still be performing until 3 a.m. but I will be on my way home before the last tubes and trains.Before I go here's a link to a little clip of me improvising some text from Women's Weekly magazine over the "Desperate Housewives" track ,at the Ski Laden gig, in Leipzig recently.Veronique@ Psycho and Plastic gig, Ski Laden, Leipzig 2013Love and PeaceVeronique

Hello Good people!I just came back from my Survivor's Poetry gig hosted by the most wonderful Razzthe performance poet at Tottenham Chances and had such a great time. I love playing in Tottenham and I love the Tottenham Chances venue, I got there with such bad stage nerves but after spending a little while there, the atmosphere and the people just made me feel totally at ease like you could go on stage and do anything, as long as it wasn't boring and you were being yourself.In the other room there were three punk bands and we could hear them fairly loudly in the background, they looked stupendous, hard core punks, one band was from Germany and I think possibly Wasted Youth were playing. Anyway in the main bar we were having our poetry and eclectic music, including a couple of South American bands and a great band called Iron Meat who reminded me of the early jazz stuff from Gong ( although Iron Meat are not psychedelic at all) and Stonehenge festival bands of the 80s.Anyway my stage nerves disappeared from the general mayhem ( we also had a dog bouncing about the place including on the stage) and the wonderful crazy people in the audience.But we could hear loud punk screaming in the background a lot of the time. I had prepared one of my quiet and sensitive music sets, but the atmosphere was different with the imminent full moon and this general feeling that anything was possible, and perhaps the spirit of the recently departed Xochitl Tuck was in me, she always encouraged everyone at Survivor's to just go for it, so I decided when I went on stage to not do my quiet sensitive stuff but to do my loud songs with definite rock and punk influences, I just rocked it on the guitar and in my singing and just obliterated the punk screaming in the background by being louder.Oh My God ( sorry that is a trite thing to say but anyway....) OMG!!! I had such a great time and it was so easy I just let the adrenaline in my system pour out through my hands and throat and rocked it.Afterwards Madeleine another Survivor's singer-songwriter , who always says lovely things to me , commented "Don't take this the wrong way but... you play the guitar like a man, but you sing like a woman". No I didn't mind I was trying to play the guitar like Jimmy Page after all, I wasn't trying to sing like anyone else although I guess Maggie Bell from Stone The Crows has been a big influence on me. Anyway I am now really looking forwards to my next two gigs ( June 3rd and June 6th See concerts or my previous post)where I will do a mix of acoustic guitar songs and semi-improvised electronic material where the other acts will all be fantabulous and innovative both in Stoke Newington. Let me know if you want to be on my emailing list, your emails will not be passed onto other people or companies.wishing you all love and peace and music in a crazy worldLet's help eachother out during this recession and club together not against one another.Véronique x